@article{248476de167749ba888e2bd507c3ad69,
title = "Acquisition of mood selection in Spanish-speaking children",
abstract = "Previous research indicates that the development of mood selection in Spanish spans several years and ends in the mastery of mood selection with sentential complements to express complex semantic meanings. The present study investigates this underexplored late stage by examining how Spanish-speaking children acquire adultlike mood selection in sentential complements to factive emotive predicates involving mental state adjectives (presupposition) and the negated epistemic verb creer {\textquoteleft}believe{\textquoteright} (nonassertion). Results of an oral sentence-completion task with 66 children (4;02–10;03) and 13 adults indicate that in contrast to the early acquisition of subjunctive to express volition (with querer {\textquoteleft}want{\textquoteright}), children exhibit adultlike mood selection by ages 6–7 in the presupposition condition and ages 9–10 in the nonassertion condition. The discussion highlights not only the protracted nature of the acquisition of adultlike mood selection but also how the rate of development is context-specific as a function of semantic, syntactic, and processing complexity.",
author = "Melisa Dracos and Pablo Requena and Karen Miller",
note = "Funding Information: This research project was funded in part by Baylor University and the University of Montana. We thank Perry Harrison for his assistance with material preparation, and we are grateful to B.J. Parker for drawing the images. We also thank Victoria Bognanno for her help with data collection and transcription. In addition, we extend a special thanks to administrators, teachers, parents, and students at the following schools in C{\'o}rdoba, Argentina: 25 de Mayo, Santo Tom{\'a}s, and William C. Morris. Funding Information: This research project was funded in part by Baylor University and the University of Montana. We thank Perry Harrison for his assistance with material preparation, and we are grateful to B.J. Parker for drawing the images. We also thank Victoria Bognanno for her help with data collection and transcription. In addition, we extend a special thanks to administrators, teachers, parents, and students at the following schools in C?rdoba, Argentina: 25 de Mayo, Santo Tom?s, and William C. Morris. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, {\textcopyright} 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/10489223.2018.1464006",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "26",
pages = "106--118",
journal = "Language Acquisition",
issn = "1048-9223",
publisher = "Psychology Press Ltd",
number = "1",
}